Naval Heritage Flashcards
Seniorenlisted leader of the Navy, and as an advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations and to the Chief of Naval Personnel in matters dealing with enlisted personnel and their families.
MCPON
Master Chief Petty Officer Delbert D. Black
born in Oklahoma, graduating from high school in 1940. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on March 14, 1941
Master Chief Petty Officer Delbert D. Black
USS Maryland (BB-46)
Master Chief Petty Officer Delbert D. Black
January 13, 1967, selected as the First Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
The “Sailors Creed” was written by a “Blue Ribbon Recruit Training Panel” in 1993
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso
Ships of the Line
The battleships of the sailing days.
These ships were the largest warships.
Carried 64-100 guns.
Frigates
- Cruisers of the 18th century.
- Next in size,
- Smaller than the average ships-of-the-line and usually faster.
- Carried 28-44 guns.
Sloops of War
The small sailing warships. Carried 10-20 guns.
Name 6 original Frigates
USS United States USS Constellation USS Constitution USS Chesapeake USS Congress USS President
What are the 3 major warship
Ships of the Line
Frigates
Sloops of War
Oldest Navy commissioned Vessel
USS Constitution
When is the Navy’s Birthday
October 13, 1775
What is the first ship named after an enlisted person
Osmond Ingram (DD 255): It was launched February 28 1919
What ship is named after the first MCPON
DDG 119 Delbert D. Black
Six areas that comprise Naval Doctrine
- Naval Warfare
Describes the inherent nature and enduring principles of naval forces.
- Naval Intelligence
Points the way for intelligence support in meeting the requirements of both regional conflicts and operations other than war.
- Naval Operations
Develops doctrine to reaffirm the foundation of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps expeditionary maritime traditions.
- Naval Logistics
Addresses the full range of logistical capabilities that are essential in the support of naval forces.
- Naval Planning
Examines force planning and the relationship between our capabilities and operational planning in the joint and multinational environment.
- Naval Command and Control
Provides the basic concepts to fulfill the information needs of commanders, forces, and weapon systems.
Ensign
United States national flag
National Flag
Flag of the country
Navy Jack
Don’t tread on me
Union Jack
50 white stars defacing a
blue field in 9 rows, alternating
between 6 and 5 stars
Effective 4 June 2019, all U.S Navy ships shall display what flag on the jack staff?
Union Jack
What is the only ship in the U.S Navy still using the Navy Jack?
USS Blue Ridge
What is the Marine Corps Birthday?
10 November 1775
The War of 1812
June 18, 1812–February 17, 1815. A conflict fought between the United States and Great Britain over British violations of U.S. maritime rights. It ended with the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Ghent.
The Barbary Wars
A series of conflicts culminating in two main wars fought between the United States, Sweden, and the Barbary states (Ottoman Empire, including Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli) of North Africa in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Clash of the Ironclad’s
Monitor vs. Virginia
The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia were not the world’s first ironclad ships, but their epic clash at Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862, marked a major turning point in naval warfare. When they met near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, Union iron-plated gunboats had already been plying the waters of Western Theater rivers for some weeks. But no two such ships had ever faced each other in combat.
The Spanish-American War
(1898), conflict between the United States and Spain that ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. acquisition of territories in the western Pacific and Latin America.
The Battle of the Atlantic
blockade of the Axis powers in Europe
security of Allied sea movements
freedom to project military power across the seas.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Dec 7 1941- “A day that will live in infamy”
Battle of Coral Sea
7-8 May 1942
world’s first carrier versus carrier battle
The U.S. carrier Lexington was sunk, and the carrier Yorktown was damaged.
Battle of Normandy
June 6, 1944, invasion of Normandy-the largest amphibious operation in history
Battle of Midway
4–7 June 1942-Midway was the turning point of the Pacific war
Hornet, Enterprise, and Yorktown
sank 4 Japanese carrier
Guadalcanal
13-15 November 1942
the five Sullivan brothers
Battle of Leyte Gulf
The final blow to the Japanese navy came October 23, 1944
Battle of Iwo Jima
February 19–March 16, 1945
United States mounted an amphibious invasion of the island of Iwo Jima as part of its Pacific campaign against Japan. A costly victory for the United States, the battle was one of the bloodiest in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps and was cited as proof of the Japanese military’s willingness to fight to the last man.
USS Pueblo
January 23, 1968
USS Pueblo 16 miles off coast, boarded by N. Koreans, 83 captured for 2 years,
USS Independence (CVL 22)
Converted from the hull of a cruiser (light cruiser Amsterdam, CL-59), She earned eight battle stars for her World War II service from Rabaul to Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. In the Cold War, Independence participated in Operation Crossroads, the atomic bombs tests at Bikini Atoll.
USS Nautilus
The world’s first nuclear submarine
Commissioned on September 30, 1954, it first ran under nuclear power on the morning of January 17, 1955.
USS Forrestal Fire
29 July 1967
killed 134 sailors and injured 161.
The Farrier Fire Fighting School Learning Site in Norfolk is named after Chief Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Gerald W. Farrier, a sailor who died in the initial explosion in an attempt to delay the detonation of ordnance with the tool he had available to him- a single PKP extinguisher.
Cold War
United States and the Soviet Union
USS Stark attack
On May 17, 1987, the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Stark (FFG-31) was on patrol when it was struck by two Iraqi Exocet missiles in the midst of the Iran-Iraq War.
The missiles were fired from an Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 by a pilot who thought the U.S. frigate was an Iranian tanker.
37 sailors died as a result of the missile strikes and the ship was sidelined for repairs for more than a year.
USS Vincennes incident
Iran Air flight 655, flight of an Iranian airliner that was shot down by the missile cruiser USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, killing all 290 people on board. The passenger plane, which was in Iranian airspace, had been incorrectly identified as a fighter jet.
Operation Preying Mantis
On 18 April 1988, the U.S. Navy launched Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian targets in the Arabian Gulf in retaliation for USS Samuel B. Roberts. It was the largest of five major U.S. Navy surface actions since World War II. It was the first, and so far only, time the U.S. Navy has exchanged surface-to-surface missile fire with an enemy, and it resulted in the largest warship sunk by the U.S. Navy since WWII.
USS Cole Attack
12 October 2000
17 U.S. Navy sailors were killed and 39 injured in the deadliest attack against a United States naval vessel since the USS Stark incident in 1987.
September 11, 2001 Attacks
Four passenger planes hijacked:
Two crashed into North and South Towers
One crashed into the Pentagon
One crashed in a field in Stonycreek Township headed for Washington, D.C.
Three ships pay tribute to the fallen victims of September 11, 2001.
USS NEW YORK (LPD 21)
USS ARLINGTON (LPD 24)
USS SOMERSET (LPD 25)
Operation Iraqi Freedom
20 March 2003 marked the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom with preemptive airstrikes on Saddam Hussein’s Presidential Palace and military targets followed by approximately 67,700 “boots on the ground” with 15,000 Navy personnel on ships in the region.
Operation Enduring Freedom
On 2 May 2011, U.S. Navy SEALS launched a raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing the al-Qaeda leader and mastermind of the September 11th terrorist’s attacks (O’Rourke). Operation Enduring Freedom officially ended 28 December 2014, although coalition forces remain on the ground to assist with training Afghan security forces (Torreon).
The U.S. Navy had three Medal of Honor recipients during Operation Enduring Freedom, all Navy SEALS, Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy, Senior Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward C. Byers Jr. and Master Chief Petty Officer Britt Slabinski.
